2025

A Thousand Blows

Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.

tv series

48 Minutes

Season Finale

(2025)

Drama

Platforms

Rating

Creators:

Steven Knight

Cast

Malachi Kirby

Hezekiah Moscow

Erin Doherty

Mary Carr

James Nelson-Joyce

Edward 'Treacle' Goodson

Jason Tobin

Mr Lao

Darci Shaw

Alice Diamond

Francis Lovehall

Alec Munroe

Hannah Walters

Eliza Moody

Morgan Hilaire

Esme Long

Seasons
(1 Seasons 6 Episodes)

Season 1

2025 • 6 Episodes 3.4

In season 1, as Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr, who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson, determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.